Originally posted by KellyJay
Changes like the Grand Canyon, I often wonder if what people believe about that place is
true than why isn't there several of those things everywhere where large rivers flow? The
hoops people jump through to make it sound reasonable doesn't always sound
reasonable to me. Why isn't the Mississippi in a huge Canyon through the Midwest, or
any of the othe ...[text shortened]... planet? The method would hold true if it were every
where that water flowed wouldn't you think?
why don't you peruse the geology of the two places, like for instance, the grand canyon is a mile deep layer of sediment, soft rocky stuff that can be taken out by flowing water where the Mississippi is sitting on bedrock AND flows a lot slower even if it is a lot more water. Apples and oranges.
I don't think you quite understand the utter destruction rained on Earth when the Yucatan asteroid hit. A little rain? Are you kidding? Did you not here the part where I said earlier there was a mound of debris near BURMUDA 700 feet deep. From the strike in the Yucatan. One asteroid gave the coup de grace to the dinosaurs, not by itself but in conjunction with life altering volcanism and such but that was only one hit and humanity is very lucky it happened way before humans arrived. The most recent large event was the Tunguska explosion, some kind of comet came in at a zillion miles per hour and didn't make it much to the ground but exploded with a force of something like a 20 megaton H bomb and it knocked down trees for miles around and the forest is still recovering from that hit and the comet or whatever it was didn't even make it to ground.
Earth has covered the scars of many many impacts and if they had happened in a few years after your alleged god created Earth, and people were around, they would have all been killed, there would have been no human race if all the strikes had happened in the first thousand years of that 6k calendar.
You really have no appreciation for the actual heat and explosive force of such an even. ONE event. Like I said, the Yucatan strike threw debris 700 feet deep all the way out to Burmuda. Think about that. Yucatan. Mexico. Bermuda, what, 700 miles out into Atlantic? The impact crater was a hundred miles or more across. Think about what would have happened if even ONE of those suckers had hit even in the Yucatan, how that would have effected the Middle east where all the whoopdedoo of the bible took place.
Then think about a hundred or more of them hitting anywhere on Earth say in the first thousand years of Earth's existence.
Think also of the mountains of the Himalayan area. Do you think they were all made in place like that? We know for an absolute fact the continents are writhing around at about an inch per year or thereabouts. So going back in time there was a time when there were ZERO mountains in the Alps because going back far enough in time, the continents were way spread out and not at that point in time crunching into another and it is that continent slab scrunch that makes the mountains in the first place. We see it happening as we speak so it is a sure bet they were not here at some point in the deep past.
We also see the recording of the magnetic activity of Earth in the line between south American and Africa where the spreading is obvious, when the magma comes boiling out of the Earth, red hot and liquid, when it cools, it takes on the shape of the magnetic field of the Earth at the time it cools. We know the magnetic field of Earth also writhes around slowly and every few hundred thousand years actually flips poles so the North pole is now the south pole till the next flip.
The spreading magma there between Africa and SA faithfully records all that like a geological tape recorder and we can read out when Earth's magnetic field got reversed and what angle it was pointing when the magma cooled.
All that took place over millions of years not thousands and there is no way for that to have EVER happened in a few thousand years because, again, if it had happened say, 5000 years ago, humans would not be here because of the violence that would have been represented by the continents scrunching together at a speed that would by definition had to have been LITERALLY thousands of times faster so instead of the one inch per year we see now, it would have to have been a hundred miles a year or some such and believe me, with that much energy expended, the mountains would have puddled up into a molten mass of gooey rock, not having the strength to have ever reached 5 or more miles up in the air.